Cuba eliminated the maximum age limit for presidential candidates within the framework of a constitutional reform that Parliament approved on Friday.
In the 2019 Constitution, the maximum age limit had been set in 60 years for the first candidacy.
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The duration of the five -year presidential mandate, renewable only once, and the minimum age of 35 years to present themselves, were not modified.
The project presented by the Council of State seeks “Do not limit that people in full exercise of their physical and mental faculties, with an age greater than 60 years, experience, results in their work, fidelity and revolutionary trajectory and high commitment to the revolution” Be elected to the position, said Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly of Popular Power.
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The constitutional reform was unanimously adopted by 440 members of the monocameral parliament, which has 470 seats in total.
Each of the deputies present rose in turn to approve the bill launching a sound “Yeah” In the plenary, according to the session broadcast on state television.
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The deputy and exmandatary Raúl Castro94, who promoted the text, was the first to vote for the reform that will be in force for the presidential ones of 2028.
The constitutional reform was unanimously adopted by 440 members of the Monocameral Parliament of Cuba, which has 470 seats in total. (Photo by Handout / ACN / AFP)
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The current Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel65, he was chosen in 2018 and then re -elected in 2023 through indirect suffrage. In Cubathe president is elected by deputies appointed through a popular election in which there is always the same number of candidates and seats.
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In 2019, the inclusion in the constitution of the limits in the presidential mandate and in the age marked a radical turn after the 60 years they added Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl in power.
Almost half a century in power
In 2006, Fidel Castro (1926-2016) had to transfer the country’s reins to his brother due to health problems. He was in power for 47 years.
Raúl Castro He officially became president of Cuba in 2008, at 76. At the end of his first term, he had announced that he would leave the presidency in 2018.
In 2021, he gave office as first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) to Miguel Díaz-Canel.
The island of 9.7 million inhabitants crosses its worst economic crisis in three decades, with a shortage of supplies of all kinds, electricity cuts and an unprecedented emigration.
To the structural weaknesses of its centralist economy, the failure of a recent monetary reform and the reinforcement of the embargo of USA.
